Space word search
The Southern Cross, Matariki rising in winter and some of the darkest skies on Earth over the Mackenzie Basin. Twenty space words for stargazers young and old.
- Astronaut
- Aurora
- Comet
- Dark sky reserve
- Earth
- Galaxy
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Matariki
- Meteor
- Milky Way
- Moon
- Orbit
- Planet
- Rocket
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Southern Cross
- Sun
- Telescope
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| M | S | A | T | U | R | N | S | C | H | D | P | L | O |
| N | E | D | I | P | F | E | O | A | E | F | L | P | I |
| S | S | L | E | C | E | A | U | R | O | R | A | A | A |
| S | O | T | M | W | M | E | T | E | O | R | N | T | C |
| O | R | B | I | T | O | I | H | C | I | P | E | M | O |
| G | M | T | L | S | A | T | E | L | L | I | T | E | M |
| D | A | R | K | S | K | Y | R | E | S | E | R | V | E |
| A | T | H | Y | H | P | O | N | Y | H | A | O | J | T |
| H | A | V | W | T | M | T | C | T | O | D | C | U | G |
| N | R | R | A | M | E | O | R | G | N | L | K | P | A |
| P | I | R | Y | V | A | A | O | U | T | U | E | I | L |
| F | K | N | G | H | E | R | S | N | U | N | T | T | A |
| A | I | M | T | E | L | E | S | C | O | P | E | E | X |
| H | E | M | A | S | T | R | O | N | A | U | T | R | Y |
Find these words
- Astronaut
- Aurora
- Comet
- Dark sky reserve
- Earth
- Galaxy
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Matariki
- Meteor
- Milky Way
- Moon
- Orbit
- Planet
- Rocket
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Southern Cross
- Sun
- Telescope
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About this word search
The New Zealand flag carries four stars of the Southern Cross, and the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve around Takapō is one of the best places in the world to see the Milky Way. In midwinter the rising of Matariki marks the Māori new year.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Dark sky reserve is the longest at fourteen letters and fills a whole row. Southern Cross follows with thirteen. Sun has only three letters, moon and Mars only four. Look for the Y in galaxy, Milky Way and dark sky reserve, and the J of Jupiter.
Go outside on a clear night after you finish and look for the Southern Cross. Its long arm and the two bright pointers beside it help you find south.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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